ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses each of the fantasies and paintings in the second book. Here, again, it demonstrates that the plots, characters, settings and philosophical themes of the fantasies are very similar to those found in further degrees of the AASR as well as in other rites, such as the Rectified Scottish Rite, the Memphis Rite and a more unusual rite that originated as an anonymous text in 18th century Germany, known as Crata Repoa. Each of Jung’s entries reveal intense states of terror, confusion and a resulting state of dissociation, especially as the fantasies become more and more disturbing. In the Sacrificial Murder he describes seeing the body of a mutilated child and being ordered to eat the child’s liver, causing him enormous guilt and moral confusion. A series of paintings accompanies this entry and the author examines these images in terms of the symbolism found in the Kabbalah. But in the context of the terrifying ordeal described above these paintings imply the application of a ritual abuse practice known as the Reversed Kabbalah, where terror is used to remake the child’s psyche.
